Where are they now?

November 20, 2005 - 8:38 PM by Israelity

Even after nearly 11 years here, I don’t understand the whole phenomenon of the stocking of the shelves of our nation’s supermarkets. It’s like there’s some sort of ~~conspiracy~~ consortium that decides which non-Israeli products should be sold, and for how long.

Just when you’ve started to relax, secure in the knowledge that you can easily gratify your Hershey’s Kisses craving, suddenly they vanish from the shelves. The first time something like this happened, I figured the store had simply run out, and would order more. Call me optimistic.

Then I noticed that certain things, like good old regular in-the-yellow-box Cheerios disappeared. But not just from one store – from every single store that had ever stocked them. These were not “sister” stores, or markets that were part of a chain. Just random stores. And wham, just like that, they were gone.

Who decides these things?

I really don’t think it’s fair that ~~some evil, sadistic bureaucrat~~ the mysterious Food Czar has this kind of power over us. Who is s/he to decide to deprive my daughter of her favorite brand of instant mac & cheese?

It’s gotten to the point where I’m leery of going to the store, list in hand. Who knows what will be missing next?

And, as we say here, may this be the worst problem we face. We’ve come a long way since the days when only wealthy neighborhoods had luxuries like sour cream in stock at their local markets.

But I still want my Kisses back.

This ~~rant~~ piece is something you won’t find at my website, Postcards from Israel.

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